2010 Ecumenical Journey

The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the LWF, leads a delegation of ELCA clergy and lay leaders to visit world church leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva, February 3–17, 2010.

Mitzi Budde, a member of the 2010 ELCA Ecumenical Journey, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, with Orthodox Bishop Makarios of Lamsakos, Geneva, and Nikolaos Manginas, a journalist who works with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Istanbul. All three attended a farewell luncheon for the ELCA delegation in Istanbul Feb. 9.

The ELCA delegation visited the Community of Sant'Egidio, Rome, a Catholic ecumenical community with an international mission of prayer and service to people living in poverty. Claudio Mario Betti, a member of the community, explained its mission to the ELCA delegation.

Claudio Mario Betti explains a mosaic that shows modern saints who dedicated their lives serving people in need. The mosaic is displayed at the Ecumenical Basilica St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island, Rome.

This icon, a 1964 gift to Pope Paul VI from the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch, hangs in the offices of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Cardinal Kasper said the icon depicts the council's work.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, The Vatican, greets the Rev. Susan Langhauser, Olathe, Kan., ELCA Church Council member, and other members of the ELCA delegation Feb. 13 in Rome.

ELCA Presiding Bishop and LWF President Mark Hanson, left, addresses Cardinal Giovanni Re, prefect of The Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, Feb. 13, in Rome. The two were joined by other members of the ELCA delegation.